Hi, James! Recently you wrote in a message to Ardith Hinton:

I duplicate the effect as best I can with rolled-up
towels or whatever else comes to hand. But it all
sounds so simple I wonder why I didn't think of it
earlier.... :-)

As long as you've thought about it now.

Better late than never?? Hmm. While I am slow of thought, word, and
and deed that's understandable in view of my preferred reasoning style.... ;-)

Having never met the man that built your desk, I doubt
he was *that* unimaginative. Heck, he raised you to
think outside the box after all.

Yeah... you may have a point there. Both of my parents did their own
thing without regard for what the neighbours were doing, and they were far more
interesting than the neighbours AFAIC. I guess I took it a step further. :-))

I often check my flights of fancy with some down to earth
"What the .... was I thinking?" and often too late.

Apparently you enjoy giving the right hemisphere of your brain a good
workout. The right hemisphere is where you get your creative ability & spatial
relations ability. I imagine it takes up quite a lot of bandwidth while you're
rejuvenating other people's castoffs. Then the left hemisphere kicks in & does
the math. But you *are* consciously aware of having made this adjustment. :-)

I *need* to let the imagination step aside for common
sense and *much* earlier so I don't have to waste so
much time, effort and material as I am accustom to.

OTOH, I've often managed to achieve the impossible when I ignored the
naysayers! If you learn best by doing under certain circumstances I think that
is legitimate. In addition to the psychobabble I've already confused you with:
I recognize three major learning channels... visual, auditory, and kinetic. As
long as that old motorcycle engine (or whatever else you're currently trying to
fix) gets you out in the fresh air keeping your mind & your body active I think
the investment is paying off to some degree whether or not you reach your goal.
But while the ability to see the potential in things is a useful talent, it can
get in the way of practicality at times. I resemble that remark... [wry grin].

You buy these things at auctions... I buy clothing at rummage sales &
whatnot. In such cases, we both know the previous owner may have discarded the
item in question because there is something wrong with it. If the manufacturer
used non-standard sizing or if Junior dribbled egg yolk on his togs & Mom can't
figure out how to get it off or if there's a button missing but the spare is on
an inside seam (right where I'd expect it to be) or if a garment is last year's
model, I can easily see that. For you the challenge may be greater because you
can't be sure what's wrong with an engine, for example, until you've dismantled
it. Then you have to find somewhere to put the pieces... which now occupy much
more space than they did earlier. If you need time to ponder the situation you
can't just leave it & do something different for awhile, as I often do when I'm
composing a message in my writing area or waiting for stubborn stains to finish
soaking in the bathtub, because your working space is already filled & you have
to remember how to put all the pieces back in the correct order. I can't offer
any solutions... but I *can* assure you that it's human nature to bite off more
than we can chew occasionally & add my own perceptions re learning styles. :-)

When somebody wants Dallas to play computer guru, we
offer them Nora's chair... but SJ's don't like to cause
any trouble & they think they know better.

Oh, *those* kind.

I figured you'd know the type I was referring to. But I don't expect
the individual I mentioned earlier to be driving Dallas & me crazy a few months
from now. He just informed us he's decided to relocate in Calgary... [GD&RFC].




--- timEd/386 1.10.y2k+
* Origin: Wits' End, Vancouver CANADA (1:153/716)